Statius sang of the conjugal love of Abascantius, who interred his wife Priscilla before the city, where the Appian Way branches out, and where Cybele haunts the stream of the Almo. To the mouth of the Almo the priests of Cybele brought the statue of the goddess once a year and washed it in the waters, together with the sacred utensils used in her worship. The tower is medieval, showing it to have been turned into a fortress. _On the left is the_ CHURCH OF DOMINE QUO VADIS. So called from the legend that S. Peter, when escaping from Rome, was met by our Saviour at this spot. Peter asked of him, "Domine, quo vadis?" to which Jesus replied, "Venio iterum crucifigi," which caused the apostle to return to his doom. They show on a small piece of marble two footprints, which they say is where the Lord stood--he having left the imprint of his feet on a piece of white marble in a road paved with silex. We don't believe it; but our readers may, if they like. The original is in the Church of S. Sebastiano. _The Via Ardeatina goes off to the right._ Just beyond, where the lane turns off to the left, Cardinal Pole erected the little round shrine as the exact spot where Jesus stood. THE TOMB OF ANNIA REGILLA. _From the Via Appia, just beyond the "Domine quo Vadis," a lane leads into the valley of the Caffarella. At the end of the lane, upon the left_, is a beautiful brick tomb of the time of the Antonines. This is popularly known as the Temple of the Dio Rediculo. We have raised objections to this: first, because Pliny ("Nat. Hist.," x. 43) says the Campus Rediculi was at the second mile on the _right_ of the Via Appia, whilst this ruin is upon the _left_; and secondly, from its construction, which shows it to have been a tomb. We have always considered this as the tomb of Annia Regilla, the wife of Herodes Atticus, consul A.D. 143. It stands upon his estate, where we know he erected a sepulchre to his wife, consecrating the surrounding land to Minerva and Nemesis. He was of Greek origin, and the ornaments are of Greek design; they are beautifully executed and well preserved, particularly the zigzag border. This view of ours has been recently confirmed: in digging up the soil at the base of the tomb, the following portion of the inscription has been found,--it is cut on a piece of _rosso-antico_:-- ANNIA REGILLA HERODIS VXOR LVMEN DOMVS CVIVS HAEC PRAEDIA FVERV Annia Regilla, the wife of Herodes, light of the house, whose this estate was In an inscription in the Louvre she is called "the light of the house, the lady of the land,"--these estates came to Herodes through Annia,--and in the newly found inscription she is called light of the house. Thus they both refer to the same lady whose tomb is here recognized.